272: Chapter 272: The Whole Internet Is Boiling with Heated Discussion

Inside the master bedroom of the villa, Jiang Zhe lay on the bed, his eyes closed.

A series of pale blue light screens appeared before his eyes.

"Tutoring session ended"

"Jiang Xiaoyu's Insight +5, IQ +3, Imagination +6, Astronomy +6, Theory +3"

"Reward Money: 1.11 million yuan"

"Reward Attribute Points: 20 points, automatically allocated: Strength +2, Agility +2, Constitution +2, Spirit +4"

"Bonus Passive Skill: Immersive Presence. Your words are imbued with a mysterious magic that allows restless people to instantly enter a focused state, and the knowledge and IQ of everyone listening to your lectures will gradually increase!"

Jiang Zhe opened his eyes, the corners of his mouth curling up slightly.

He turned over and glanced at the pitch-black night sky outside the window.

"If I were to give a public lecture at a university now, within seven days, the entire student body would reach a higher level."

He raised his hand to check the time; it was midnight.

Jiang Xiaoyu had an exam before the New Year tomorrow, so he should get some sleep too.

He closed his eyes and quickly drifted into a dream.

...

As Jiang Zhe drifted off to sleep, the carnival on the internet was just beginning to ferment.

At 12:15 AM, the Weibo trending list was dominated by a series of search topics related to Jiang Zhe.

"Did the Moon come from Venus?"

"The coincidence of one-quarter?"

"There was no Moon before the Great Flood!"

"The Moon is a hollow titanium shell!"

"Venus, the Moon, Earth, double tidal locking?"

"The oceans on Earth are just impact craters!"

"Two moons in the sky!"

"Is the three-body problem rare?"

"New movie The Avengers coming soon!"

"Why have national TV ratings dropped by 1.7 percentage points in the last month; is it artificial or are young people just not interested in TV anymore?"

Of the top ten trending topics, Jiang Zhe occupied eight by himself, even pushing the trending search bought by a big shot for a new movie to the very end!

At this moment, the comment section completely exploded.

"Holy crap, I spent a few rounds battling with my girlfriend tonight, and I missed all this?"

"Eight trending topics, Brother is as awesome as always!"

"Ahhh, the Moon came from Venus, what on earth did I miss!"

"Begging for a recording!"

"Recording is out, check the first post on @Jiang Xiaoyu, the video is already pinned!"

"Watching it now, preparing to have my mind blown!"

Jiang Xiaoyu hid under her covers, covering her mouth to stifle a giggle. Seeing her follower count surpass 6 million, she officially logged off.

Her Weibo followers had exceeded 6 million.

Moreover, Jiang Xiaoyu didn't really use Weibo much.

It was mainly too annoying; every time she logged on, a huge crowd of people would tag her. Sometimes it was directors, sometimes it was state officials. Being tagged was one thing, but their questions were all the same: "Jiang Xiaoyu, where is your brother's Weibo?", "Jiang Xiaoyu, what is your brother's phone number?", "Jiang Xiaoyu, does your brother have a girlfriend?", "Jiang Xiaoyu, does your brother have a boyfriend?", and other such boring questions.

...

As time passed, it was 12:30 AM.

On Weibo, the account of a popular actor.

Hu XX posted an update: "Just finished filming a night scene for a period drama, and I'm stunned after scrolling through the trending topics."

"The Moon came from Venus, one-quarter, double tidal locking, what is all this?"

"Xiaoyu's brother, who on earth is he, how is he so incredibly popular, and I can't even find his Weibo!"

"I clicked in and watched the recording for half an hour, and now I'm completely dazed. Can someone tell me what happened?"

Once the post was up, countless male and female fans flooded in.

"Brother, you watch Brother's livestream too?"

"Suggesting Teacher Hu act in a movie about the Moon and Venusian civilization!"

"Brother's class, even the top celebrities in the entertainment industry can't escape it!"

"Brother, Xiaoyu's brother is a state secret personnel. You don't need to know who he is, just knowing that he exists can push our country's theoretical science, and perhaps even practical science, further!"

"Yes, some people say he came from the future, and I really believe it now!"

At this moment, in a hotel at a certain film studio.

This Mr. Hu looked at the fans' comments and then curiously searched online.

Good heavens, upon searching, the internet was completely blank!

Only by searching for relevant topics could one cut into Jiang Xiaoyu's livestream.

He couldn't help but shake his head, feeling somewhat inferior, "A knowledge livestream that can achieve this level, plus a postdoctoral degree in one day, it is truly unprecedented and will never be surpassed!"

...

As time passed, it was 1:00 AM.

On a certain short video platform, a science blogger who usually had only a few thousand followers: Science White, posted three videos tonight, each of which quickly surpassed a million views.

The first: "Did the Moon come from Venus? How terrifying is the number one-quarter?"

In the video, the blogger Science White sat in front of the camera, holding a whiteboard with a simple diagram of the Solar System drawn on it.

"Family, the Moon hypothesis that Xiaoyu's brother talked about tonight, I've been going over it for over an hour, and the more I go over it, the more my scalp tingles!"

He used a ballpoint pen to draw a line between Venus and Earth.

"Let's set aside those complex formulas and just look at one number: one-quarter."

"The Moon, Earth's satellite, is one-quarter the volume of Earth; one-quarter, this ratio of satellite to planet, what kind of concept is this in the Solar System?"

"It's unique. The ratio of the volume of all other planets' satellites to their host planets is in the range of one-several-tens or even one-several-hundredths."

"Yet Venus, this planet that is like a twin brother to Earth, once had a satellite; according to complex calculations, its volume was most likely also one-quarter of Venus."

He looked at the camera, looking serious and earnest.

"Some say this is a coincidence, but let's think about it from another angle."

"If the Moon really is that missing satellite of Venus, then after it was captured by Earth, the Moon we see is actually second-hand; on its ID card, it doesn't say Earth, it says Venus."

"We have looked up at the Moon for thousands of years, that Moon used for writing poems and expressing homesickness, it originally belonged to Venus, it is not our Earth's satellite at all!"

"Second-hand Moon, this statement is too heartbreaking!"

"So when the ancients looked at the Moon and felt homesick, they were actually looking at Venus?"

"I'm falling apart, I'll have psychological trauma whenever I see the Moon from now on!"

"Upstairs, what psychological trauma, the Moon didn't cheat!"

"Haha, holy crap, cheating!"

"But it's really terrifying when you think about it, our Moon was picked up!"

"Wuwuwu, I will never say 'In the name of the Moon, I will punish you' again, from now on it should be 'In the name of Venus, I will punish you'!"

"Venus: [Why are you punishing me? I'm doing just fine in the entertainment industry.]"

The second video...

"[This video is suspected of containing multiple mentions of Xiaoyu's brother, Gusu Jingan Villa, and has been banned!]"

Blogger White said to the camera with a wronged expression, "I am very sorry, I revealed some of Brother's privacy, so... forget about this video!"

In the comment section.

"Good heavens..."

"The visible hand is truly terrifying!"

"Hahaha, cracking me up!"

The third video, "No Moon before the Great Flood? The shocking consistency of global myths."

In the video.

The blogger pulled up a world map, densely marked with dozens of red dots.

"Family, Xiaoyu's brother mentioned a subversive viewpoint tonight: 12,000 years ago, before the Great Flood, there were no records of the Moon."

He pointed at the red dots on the map, moving through them one by one.

"I spent over an hour flipping through the original sources of these myths, and guess what?"

"In our country's myths of Pangu, Nüwa, Fuxi, and the Yellow Emperor, there is no Moon; it only started to appear later."

"In India, in the earliest chapters of the Rigveda, there is no Moon; later in the Mahabharata, [a new celestial body, brighter than the old] suddenly appears."

"Ancient Greece: Early versions of Hesiod's Theogony mentioned that in ancient times there were [multiple moons] in the sky, [later only one remained]."

"Ancient Babylon: Clay tablets record that [two bright disks appeared in the sky] around 3000 BC, which is exactly after the Great Flood!"

"Maya: In the Popol Vuh, the Moon only appeared in the sky after the Creator destroyed the first batch of humans with a flood."

Looking at the camera, the blogger spoke slowly:

"These myths are distributed all over the world, with no communication between them."

"But they are talking about the same thing: the Moon suddenly appeared at a certain point in time."

"Xiaoyu's brother said that was an eyewitness report, I personally feel that's a bit humble, if you ask me, it should be..."

He also imitated Jiang Zhe and suddenly grinned, "A global announcement!"

"Hiss~~ Global announcement, you're even more extreme than Brother!"

"Holy crap, this theory is awesome!"

"So someone notified the ancients of the world [The Moon is coming]?"

"Then who was the person who notified them?"

"Venusians!!!"

"Venusians: Hey, Earth brothers, our daughter is going over there, you accept her and raise her, if you don't raise her well, I will destroy you."

"Hahahaha, dying of laughter!"

"But think about it carefully, if the Moon really came from Venus, then there must be intelligent life on Venus, otherwise who could have notified them?"

"Terrifying to think about!!!"

"..."

Of course, the quality of these bloggers' fans was not as high as the IQ and quality of those who had been nurtured by Jiang Zhe's multiple tutoring sessions.

...

Time continued to pass, it was 2:00 AM.

On another short video platform, another blogger became popular.

Old Zhang Geology, he was over fifty years old, a retired geological engineer, and his followers were originally less than twenty thousand.

He posted a video titled "Talking about the Moon coming from Venus from a geological perspective," and the views quickly surpassed a million.

In the video, Zhang Jianguo sat in his study, with a whole wall of rock specimens behind him, ten out of nine points professional!

"Hello everyone, those who are familiar with me know that I, Old Zhang, have been retired for ten years and didn't want to get involved in these online matters, but tonight I really couldn't help it."

He picked up a dark gray rock sample to the camera.

"This is something I brought back from Northern Xinjiang, 4.5 billion years old, look at this texture!"

He pointed to the lines on the rock surface, "This is called directional alignment; only under long-term and unidirectional stress can the crystals inside the rock align this way."

"Then what can produce such stress?"

"Naturally, it's the tidal locking that Brother talked about."

He put down the rock, looked back at the camera, and explained seriously: "The rocks on the front side of the Moon, their directional alignment points to Earth—that's easy to understand, right? But what about the rocks on the far side of the Moon brought back by Chang'e?"

He opened a thick book of materials.

"This data is also public in our country; the directional alignment of the rocks on the far side of the Moon points in a completely different direction."

He narrowed his eyes, suddenly looking serious, "Venus."

"Because only the mass and distance of Venus could leave such traces on the far side of the Moon."

Once this was said, comments in the comment section rose rapidly.

"Damn, I always thought Brother was just tutoring Jiang Xiaoyu, but you're telling me he's playing for real?"

"Damn it, my values are exploding every day, my worldview is about to vanish."

"Even an old engineer has come out, this is the professional perspective!"

"Directional alignment, the fingerprint left by Venus is confirmed!"

"My grandfather worked in geology his whole life, and he says what this Old Zhang said is true!"

"That is extremely terrifying..."